Wordpress is a sophisticated “Content Management System” that uses a database to store your content, and a set of short programs written in the PHP programming language to present that content in a consistent manner. In this assignment you will set up a very simple website to explore some of the possibilities for your course project. There are many parts to this PHP “engine”, but one of the most important, and easiest to manipulate, is called a theme. Wordpress themes are potentially very powerful, but they can also be quite simple. You have already explored some of the sophisticated themes available to you in the Wordpress theme repository. We will now go backwards – far, far backwards – and use a trivially simple theme, one so simple that you can easily edit it yourself. The Wordpress Learning Theme is already installed on all your sites. [Note 10/31: please wait a day or two before hacking directly on the theme as I hope to make some updates in the next couple of days]. In this assignment you will:

activate the Wordpress learning theme via the Wordpress dashboard

make changes directly to the theme via Atom

deploy your changes to your Wordpress site [details coming soon!]

Add sample content to your site, testing some of the structures that might be useful to the class project